The nice part about that new IF topic: influence, is that it translate the same in French. Seriously, the first idea I had was actually a political illustration… I wanted to illustrate about the growing influence of the Tea Party in the US political sphere… my idea was all ready to go, sketched and all. And then I changed my mind (happens a lot when I wear both hats: art director & illustrator… Oh well) anyway, I decided to go with a totally different approach, as you can see below.
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La partie vraiment chouette du sujet de Illustration Friday de cette semaine (Influence) c’est que j’ai pas besoin de traduire le mot hihi. Sans blague… ma première idée était très axé sur le politique Américaine, soit l’influence du “Tea party” aux Etats-Unis… mon idée était toute prète, esquisse et tout. Et puis j’ai changé d’idée, comme ça m’arrive souvent hihi… j’ai décidé d’y aller avec une toute autre aproche. La voici!
I will go visit your website now!! I miss checking other websites of illustrators, too!! hehe
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he he.
Sometimes I feel the coloring is backwards.. black sheep wanting to paint a white one…
Nice take!
It is very simple and yet the longer I look at it, the more thinking it makes me do..
hehe thank you Malka, yes, could have been the other way around… all we have to do is “invert” colors and it would work just as well! Thanks for the nice words!!
Super illustration beautifully painted. I relate I’m a bit of the black sheep in my family.
Very nice painting. Clever!
haha, nice idea, Isabelle! This style looks different from your other work. I like this also!
This looks so great! What a wonderful idea. And exquisitely executed!
Ha, ha, and to add to it, I have the sound to go with it, there is a big herd of sheep outside my workspace-window this morning
Chibi and Elizabeth… you are right, this has the look and feel of a painting (actually it was meant to be) but… of course it’s all an illusion. All been done in digital collage, of course. I just had fun with the textures and the light so it would have a bit of the “oil painting” look… I figured it would go well with the scenery.
Spindelmaker… no way??!! You have sheep in your background? Hooo that’s sweet. That would have helped me a lot with that collage!! hehehe… thanks for stopping by, I think I can hear them now….
This is Great! A very clear message.It really does look like an oil painting.
Ahhhh, sheep are my favorite. Very nice! Really captures the spirit of the sheep.
good point and good image.
I like this a lot! Very clever illustration!
This is so perfect. Great take on the IF prompt, and wonderfully done. I really like it.
I’m thinking the Black Sheep IS rather related to the Tea Party Republicans. And too many of my countrymen are like sheep.
where is my comment? Disappeared? No, onder the white paint…..Sheep, sheep and more sheep . Great work, Because of sheep. Of course. And because of idea. And the colors. Luckily you did change your mind.
The message is clear : be aware of….
(all this above means that I like it very much!)
Sorry, I do not know what you’ve written, but I really like your illustration. Excellent! Very good idea!
Oh. I am very silly, I did not realize, that is also written in English language! sorry!
So many great comments… would be too long to reply to all here… but I love all your comments and always smile reading these! And yes, Roberto, I try to translate all my blog entry from French to English or vice-versa as I know most people have English as a second (or first) language.
Maintenant je sais pourquoi il y a toujours un mouton noir!
oh you are sooooooo very smart, and i do love this illustration!!
有深意！！！经典……